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2008 AMC 10A

All 25 problems from the 2008 AMC 10A. Take it as a timed mock test — 1:15:00 on the clock, scored the way the real contest is — or read through the problems and open any of them for hints and a worked solution.

25 problems · 6 points correct, 1.5 for blank, 0 for wrong

  1. A bakery owner turns on his doughnut machine at 8:308{:}30 am. At 11:1011{:}10 am the machine has completed one third of the day’s job. At what time will the doughnut machine complete the job?
  2. A square is drawn inside a rectangle. The ratio of the width of the rectangle to a side of the square is 2:1.2:1. The ratio of the rectangle’s length to its width is 2:1.2:1. What percent of the rectangle’s area is inside the square?
  3. For the positive integer n,n, let ⟨n⟩\langle n \rangle denote the sum of all the positive divisors of nn with the exception of nn itself. For example, ⟨4⟩=1+2=3\langle 4 \rangle = 1 + 2 = 3 and ⟨12⟩=1+2+3+4+6=16.\langle 12 \rangle = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 6 = 16. What is ⟨⟨⟨6⟩⟩⟩?\langle\langle\langle 6 \rangle\rangle\rangle?
  4. Suppose that 23\dfrac{2}{3} of 1010 bananas are worth as much as 88 oranges. How many oranges are worth as much as 12\dfrac{1}{2} of 55 bananas?
  5. Which of the following is equal to the product 84⋅128⋅1612⋯4n+44n⋯20082004? \begin{aligned} &\dfrac{8}{4} \cdot \dfrac{12}{8} \cdot \dfrac{16}{12} \cdots \dfrac{4n+4}{4n} \\ &\quad \cdots \dfrac{2008}{2004}? \end{aligned}
  6. A triathlete competes in a triathlon in which the swimming, biking, and running segments are all of the same length. The triathlete swims at a rate of 33 kilometers per hour, bikes at a rate of 2020 kilometers per hour, and runs at a rate of 1010 kilometers per hour. Which of the following is closest to the triathlete’s average speed, in kilometers per hour, for the entire race?
  7. The fraction (32008)2−(32006)2(32007)2−(32005)2 \dfrac{\left(3^{2008}\right)^2 - \left(3^{2006}\right)^2}{\left(3^{2007}\right)^2 - \left(3^{2005}\right)^2} simplifies to which of the following?
  8. Heather compares the price of a new computer at two different stores. Store A offers 15%15\% off the sticker price followed by a $90\$90 rebate, and store B offers 25%25\% off the same sticker price with no rebate. Heather saves $15\$15 by buying the computer at store A instead of store B. What is the sticker price of the computer, in dollars?
  9. Suppose that 2x3−x6 \dfrac{2x}{3} - \dfrac{x}{6} is an integer. Which of the following statements must be true about x?x?
  10. Each of the sides of a square S1S_1 with area 1616 is bisected, and a smaller square S2S_2 is constructed using the bisection points as vertices. The same process is carried out on S2S_2 to construct an even smaller square S3.S_3. What is the area of S3?S_3?
  11. While Steve and LeRoy are fishing 11 mile from shore, their boat springs a leak, and water comes in at a constant rate of 1010 gallons per minute. The boat will sink if it takes in more than 3030 gallons of water. Steve starts rowing toward the shore at a constant rate of 44 miles per hour while LeRoy bails water out of the boat. What is the slowest rate, in gallons per minute, at which LeRoy can bail if they are to reach the shore without sinking?
  12. In a collection of red, blue, and green marbles, there are 25%25\% more red marbles than blue marbles, and there are 60%60\% more green marbles than red marbles. Suppose that there are rr red marbles. What is the total number of marbles in the collection?
  13. Doug can paint a room in 55 hours. Dave can paint the same room in 77 hours. Doug and Dave paint the room together and take a one-hour break for lunch. Let tt be the total time, in hours, required for them to complete the job working together, including lunch. Which of the following equations is satisfied by t?t?
  14. Older television screens have an aspect ratio of 4:3.4:3. That is, the ratio of the width to the height is 4:3.4:3. The aspect ratio of many movies is not 4:3,4:3, so they are sometimes shown on a television screen by “letterboxing” — darkening strips of equal height at the top and bottom of the screen, as shown. Suppose a movie has an aspect ratio of 2:12:1 and is shown on an older television screen with a 2727-inch diagonal. What is the height, in inches, of each darkened strip?
  15. Yesterday Han drove 11 hour longer than Ian at an average speed 55 miles per hour faster than Ian. Jan drove 22 hours longer than Ian at an average speed 1010 miles per hour faster than Ian. Han drove 7070 miles more than Ian. How many more miles did Jan drive than Ian?
  16. Points AA and BB lie on a circle centered at O,O, and ∠AOB=60∘.\angle AOB = 60^\circ. A second circle is internally tangent to the first and tangent to both OAOA and OB.OB. What is the ratio of the area of the smaller circle to that of the larger circle?
  17. An equilateral triangle has side length 6.6. What is the area of the region containing all points that are outside the triangle and not more than 33 units from a point of the triangle?
  18. A right triangle has perimeter 3232 and area 20.20. What is the length of its hypotenuse?
  19. Rectangle PQRSPQRS lies in a plane with PQ=RS=2PQ = RS = 2 and QR=SP=6.QR = SP = 6. The rectangle is rotated 90∘90^\circ clockwise about R,R, then rotated 90∘90^\circ clockwise about the point that SS moved to after the first rotation. What is the length of the path traveled by point P?P?
  20. Trapezoid ABCDABCD has bases ABAB and CDCD and diagonals intersecting at K.K. Suppose that AB=9,AB = 9, DC=12,DC = 12, and the area of △AKD\triangle AKD is 24.24. What is the area of trapezoid ABCD?ABCD?
  21. A cube with side length 11 is sliced by a plane that passes through two diagonally opposite vertices AA and CC and the midpoints BB and DD of two opposite edges not containing AA or C,C, as shown. What is the area of quadrilateral ABCD?ABCD?
  22. Jacob uses the following procedure to write down a sequence of numbers. First he chooses the first term to be 6.6. To generate each succeeding term, he flips a fair coin. If it comes up heads, he doubles the previous term and subtracts 1.1. If it comes up tails, he takes half of the previous term and subtracts 1.1. What is the probability that the fourth term in Jacob’s sequence is an integer?
  23. Two subsets of the set S={a,b,c,d,e}S = \{a, b, c, d, e\} are to be chosen so that their union is SS and their intersection contains exactly two elements. In how many ways can this be done, assuming that the order in which the subsets are chosen does not matter?
  24. Let k=20082+22008.k = 2008^2 + 2^{2008}. What is the units digit of k2+2k?k^2 + 2^k?
  25. A round table has radius 4.4. Six rectangular place mats are placed on the table. Each place mat has width 11 and length xx as shown. They are positioned so that each mat has two corners on the edge of the table, these two corners being end points of the same side of length x.x. Further, the mats are positioned so that the inner corners each touch an inner corner of an adjacent mat. What is x?x?

0 of 25 answered. Each problem left blank still scores 1.5 points.

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